Will my clients / patients need to track all their food intake?

No.

Counting calories or logging meals is tedious and time-consuming, and can even encourage bad habits  (it’s much easier to log an unhealthy frozen dinner or packaged snack than something you cooked yourself using real-food ingredients). Most patients / clients will not be able to sustain detailed food logging long term. 

Diet ID uses an image-based dietary assessment to capture current intake and measure improvement in diet quality over time. You can repeat the assessment frequently, e.g. monthly to measure progress.

Instead of detailed food logging as the daily accountability method, Diet ID has a Challenges platform (which you may or may not have access to based on your plan) that focuses on mastering one healthy eating habit at a time. Instead of logging everything you eat every day, you'll instead check in on your one Challenge of the week. For example, if you're doing the Eat 5 Fruits and Veggies a Day challenge, you'll simply use Diet ID to track how many servings of fruits and veggies you had that day. The experience is much less burdensome than detailed food logging, but still gives the benefit of a daily accountability system.